Nostalgia & History > An eastbound at the Dunsmuir Crossovers early 1990's

An eastbound accelerates at the Dunsmuir Crossovers after being held on a red signal.

Robert Morris Photography
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/15 17:39 by photobob.

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as always Bob ... very nice ...

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Very nice, Bob. Was that one converted from film, or is it from VHS?

Love it Bob, especially with the lead unit havin' the gyralite still on it!

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.....

California Air Resources Board Special.

Tier 4 special. Fortunately the wind blew it all away from Bob's house. And those were relatively clean EMD's! No black smoke and fire belching GE's. Back when we used to deadhead on the trailing units.... The original one way EOT device without an emergency application feature.

sphogger



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/15 05:16 by sphogger.

Neat video.

Did anyone notice a FRED on the rear? Doesn't appear to be one.

MILW16 - this train does have an End Of Train (FRED) device. The original SP models had a large battery that had to be recharged on crew terminal battery chargers. It used a different configuration and method of attachment to the coupler. These only provided telemetry information with no head end device actiivated solenoid allowing the engineer to initiate an emergency application at the rear end. A pinched trainline in grade terrritory was a potential catastrophe without that capability. The batteries on these were targeted by thieves. There were several places where they were stolen more often than not when we stopped. Even lost a couple on the fly. I was told they were used to make Meth.

sphogger